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3.2.16 Revision of Question/Answers

Q1. What is the advantage of a long coastline?

Q2. Why are so many tourists attaracted to Goa?

Q3. How is it that so many people in Puducherry know french?

Q4. Why are Lakshadweep Islands referred to as 'coral islands'?

Q5. What do you mean by 'natural vegetation' of an area?

Q6. Which is the famous dance form of Odissa?

Q7. Name the salt water lakes, which get cut off from the sea?

Q8. Name four useful products we get from forests.

Q9. List four ways in which forests are useful to us.

Q10. What was chipko movement?

Q11. Why can't sea water be used for drinking and irrigation?

Q12. What problems occur in India beacuse of rains?

Q13. Name two places each in India where the following are located:

a) Iron and Steel Plants b) Petroleum Refineries

Q14. Name the places where the following are mainly found in India. Give their important uses:-a) Coal b) Petroleum.